30 Oct
2012
30 Oct
'12
8:46 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Lorenzo Sutton
<lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 30/10/12 14:55, Paul Davis wrote:
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Getting wifi drivers for Linux on mac means having to extract the wifi
firmware from the OSX proprietary driver. So, knowing that, it's not
surprising that wifi on a Linux LiveCD will not work for macs. Nobody
is likely to extract all the possible firmwares you would need and
package them with Linux (it might even be illegal to distribute those
binaries that way).
Chuck
she'll get more done with OS X unless she is
herself a natural tinkerer
and/or has "odd" needs (e.g. academic electroacoustic music)
Alas, as far as I can tell from my very personal totally-non-scientific
survey, in _Italy_ so-called "academic electroacoustic music" is using 58%
OSX, 41.9% Windows, 0.1% other OS.
Last year I did a linux audio seminar for non-linux pleople, and knowing the
above statistics in advance I searched for a live distro which would run on
macs, AVLinux proved the best, only problem I couldn't get wifi to work. I
must say that my requirement was to have a multimedia distro ready to go and
which would just run from a CD
Lorenzo.